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De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes, maximis impensis et vigiliis elaborati, adiectis earvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus, nunquam antea ad naturae imitationem artificiosius effictis & expressis

by: Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566

Publication date: 1542

Topics: Botany -- Pre-Linnean works, Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800, Botany -- Terminology -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: Basileae, In officina Isingriniana

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin; German; Greek

Item Size: 2.5G

[28], 896, [4] p. 37 cm. (fol.)

Plant names given in Latin, Greek and German in text and index, but in Latin and German only as captions to ill

Woodcut ill. of plants, including their roots. Port. of author on t.p. verso. Ports. of the draughtsmen (Heinricus Füllmaurer, Albertus Meyer) and the block cutter (Vitus Rodolph. Speckle) on p. [897]. Michael Isengrin's device on t.p. and last p., with words "Palma Ising." (Basler Büchermarken, 154). Historiated initials. Those on α2r and A2r are metal cuts after Hans Holbein by CV; see Hollstein's German engravings XIV B, 145

Signatures: α⁶ β⁸ A-Z⁶ a-3f⁶